Socialist-Oriented Development and Its Critics [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION In recent years bourgeois politicians, economists and sociologists have been paying increasing attention to the question of the possible paths for social and economic development of countries that have cast off the fetters of colonial dependence. In their numerous writings two main themes can be identified: praise for the capitalist path of development and attack against the socialist path. From bourgeois writers this is to be expected. They cannot reconcile themselves to the fact that the former colonial nations, with few exceptions, have gained political independence. But while political liberation is a great achievement, it is not yet enough. For, in a sense, the turning over of power by the colonialists to local leaders gives the newly-free peoples at an initial stage nothing but a national flag and a national anthem. Thus, for example, what did the Congolese have besides these symbols of national statehood under the rule of Abbé Fulbert Youlou? What did the citizens of the former Central African Empire have under the rule of Jean-Bédel Bokassa? And what do the inhabitants of Zaire, Haiti, and many other formally independent states have now? Serious problems confront those leaders of the newly-free countries who are not merely obedient